"Try keeping up with this one if you can, it gets faster and faster and faster until it collapses exhausted into a bar full of drunks, la, la, la, la-ing all over the place."

Bowie's patronage of now firmly established acts such as The Arcade Fire is widely under-stood as being instrumental to their current success. And such endorsement of Honey-trap may yet yield similar results.

Honeytrap are signed to Coventry-based label Tough Love Records and the song appears on the band's The Naked Dancing EP.

Label co-founder Stephen Pietrzykowski said: "I received a call informing me that David Bowie had voted Mussolini's Son as the number one record in an article in the Times.

I couldn't quite believe that someone of his prominence had even heard the record, let alone liked it enough to vote it number one in his list."

Honeytrap are busy preparing for a tour of Japan in April and will play at the Tin Angel, in Spon Street, on Wednesday.